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| Light Infantry Tactics: For Small Teams | 
 enlarge | Author: Christopher , E. Larsen
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 21511
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 252
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1418472077
Dewey Decimal Number: 031
EAN: 9781418472078
ASIN: 1418472077
Publication Date: March 24, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
Good Refresher January 3, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is well written but suffers slightly from the graphics: black and white. Outside of that, it is an excellent review for those us nostalgic over those scaly old manuals we used in basic. I especially liked the old war stories. Like an old drill sergeant, they brought the meaning of book to life. He answered all my questions and put the fear back into me -- better than PT in the morning.
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 nice review, but lacking in some areas August 28, 2006
14 out of 19 found this review helpful
individual skill #4: fighting positions not covered very well. leader skill #3: warning & operations orders needs to include a real example of what each would look like. would like to see movement and combat formations covered alot better. file, wedge, column, echlon right (left), line, vee for fire teams, squad and possibly platoon. I personally would rather have spent my money on another book and not this one.
Basic Infantry Skills - Emphasis on Basic July 27, 2006
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
This book describes the basic skills needed to be a member of an infantry fire team. Topics discussed include hand signals, ambushes, marching formations, offensive and defensive tactics, etc., pretty much everything an infantryman needs to know about operating at the fire team/squad level other than how to fire your weapon. There is a discussion at the end of each section that applies what is learned to a real world historical situation so the reader can better understand how the principals are actually put into action. As discussed by some of the other reviewers, this book is quite basic; there is little higher level information contained within. It is geared to prepare the reader to be a member of a fire team and nothing more. There is virtually no information on higher level (platoon or company) operations, and the knowledge required of even a squad leader greatly exceeds that contained in this book. If you've served in the Army in a combat MOS or in the Marines, you probably already know (alot) more about this subject than what is contained in this book. This is a book on tactics for an individual in an infantry fire team and if this is what you are looking for, I would highly recommend it. If you want something more detailed than this, you should go elsewhere.
 Not what I expected but... May 9, 2006
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
For the layman, this is an excellent overview of basic light infantry tactics. It encompasses a broad array of the various aspects of tactics including movement, hand signals, orders, and battle drills. Even for the new infantryman, it consolidates the necessities of basic infantry stuff for squad and platoon level.
My issue with the book only comes from coming short of expectations. I had hoped it would include the basics of MOUT with the plethora of lessons learned in Southwest Asia but it did not. I was also hoping for something a little bit updated, compact, and originally organized. It is none of those, taking info and pictures right out of Army manuals (mostly FM 7-8) and for even the former infantryman, this book has nothing new to offer. It has nearly 100% of the tactics I studied 12 years ago, albeit in a slightly more condensed and slightly improved format (Army FM's are generally along 5th grade reading level and this holds the line, but with improved graphics, although the drawings seem to be lifted right out of the original manuals)There are other guides out there that are more complete and probably more up to date, but this isn't a bad compilation for the uninitiated, although it could have been smaller in size and therefore better suited for the field.
 Best of its kind February 11, 2006
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
The night it arrived in the mail I started reading, soon I was skimming to take in all I could in the shortest time possible. It was everything I had looked for in similar books but in a format that was easy to grasp in a short time. Without a doubt, I think this is the best book of it's kind. Whatever small unit skills you wish to master, the foundation is here: hand signals, map and compass use, attack and defense principles for individuals and small units, and even a glossary for the innevitable avalanche of military abbreviations and acronyms. Having this book will save you a lot of time and money trying to piece the same information from a collection of other books. Take it camping or hunting or paintballing and you will not be disappointed.
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